Elections originally scheduled for this weekend in Nigeria have been postponed in light of the continuing violence committed by the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram. A new date has been set in six weeks time, giving the Nigerian government and security forces only a tight window to secure the country enough to allow voters to select their nex

A Burmese woman was executed last week on the streets of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, with video footage of the killing quickly going viral. Although she protested her innocence to the very end, Layla bint Abdul Mutaleb Bassim was beheaded after being convicted of killing her husband’s 6-year-old daughter.
The video shows the executioner,

In the days following the gruesome attacks in Paris on the offices of Charlie Hebdo and on a kosher market, the world has re-evaluated the threat posed to freedom of expression by Islamist extremism. Many are looking to moderate members of the Muslim community to demonstrate that they will not side with brutal killers.
With these pressin

A crowd of over 10,000 angry Germans assembled this week to protest the detrimental impact that Muslim immigrants were having on their country, while denouncing the ruling elites who have permitted this situation to become intolerable. Meanwhile, a dozen people were killed in central Paris on Wednesday when Islamist militants attacked the headqu

Beleaguered Russians rang in the New Year with a special gift from the Kremlin – a cap on the price of their much-beloved vodka. Facing an economy seemingly on the verge of collapse, President Vladimir Putin took steps this past week to ensure that a plummeting ruble would not prevent his country from drowning its sorrows in cheap alcohol.

The international community was shocked this past week when reports surfaced of the extent to which the Islamic State has enslaved several hundred captured girls. ISIS’ concubine program is being justified on the grounds that it is based on valid Islamic practices. A market for trading concubines is even operating openly.
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The world’s attention was fixated this week on a small café in Sydney’s central business district, as Man Haron Monis, sex-offender and Islamist extremist, sought to bring the violence and bloodshed associated with the Islamic State to his adopted country of Australia.
Monis, armed with a shotgun, took hostages in the

What may initially seem like a harmless smartphone application to someone in dire need of a quick ride home has now become an international battleground. In cities around the world, the powers of state control are facing off against the creative destruction of social-media-driven entrepreneurialism. Uber Technologies, the American online booking

The dismissal this past week of criminal charges against the former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak demonstrates how little has changed in his country despite years of social unrest. Violence immediately returned to the streets of Cairo after the announcement, as police confronted protesters angered that so little change has resulted since Muba

When it comes to swearing in new citizens, no one in Europe is doing it quite so enthusiastically as Britain.
Recently, it was reported that of all new passports handed out in Europe, one-fourth of them had the British seal on the cover.
Clearly, when people are voting with their feet, they are casting a vote for Britain over oth

The great economic divide in India was on display again this past week when 14 impoverished women died of complications from being sterilized by government doctors. Over a dozen other women have been hospitalized.
Indian women are paid $20 by the government to undergo sterilization treatment.
Promoting sterilizations as a way of

With the Ebola crisis continuing to mount, and growing concerns over the threat posed by Islamic militant groups such as Boko Haram, Africa has been a mainstay in the news cycle over recent months. As Americans trudged through this week’s midterm elections, and the starting pistol is fired for the extended campaign for the White House in 2

Given the numerous problems facing France today, it is clear that French politicians need to be doing something different if they hope to get their country and its beleaguered economy working again. However, appearing on a reality TV show probably isn’t the kind of change that most French voters would have been expecting.
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French movie theaters this week were the scene of a wave a violence as fights and hooliganism broke out among audience members who came to watch the global horror-movie phenomenon “Annabelle.” Critics quickly condemned the assaults, bemoaning the lack of respect for the law among French youth and the decline of civility generally.

For the first time, a sitting head of state is in front of the International Criminal Court in the Hague this week to face trial for alleged crimes against humanity. Supporters of Uhuru Kenyatta, president of Kenya, have decried the proceeding as politically motivated and the charges as baseless, while prosecutors are complaining that Kenyan off